The goal of this project is to apply the principles discussed at the API Workshop (Oct, 2009) and reconvene in one year to discuss progress. This will involve applying for additional funding and hosting a second workshop, as well as working together in small partnerships on projects that make use of APIs that result in something new.

Timeline

NYPL will put in an NEH grant for a follow up meeting.

Small teams try to develop demonstrations of using APIs between two or more projects (see below for possible matches)

Spend one year developing these demonstrations and documenting them on the NiCHE page.

Gather in late 2010 (funded by the first step) to show the demos and discuss the lessons learned.

General rules for the engagement:

i. We are not trying to build robust scalable working applications.

ii. Keep it simple – try to make something work that tests the idea.

iii. Don’t feel you have to spend too much time or partner with more projects than you can support for the purposes of exploring the use of APIs.

iv. We are testing the use of APIs across different projects and focusing loosely on historical applications.